Samantha Lyn Aasen is an artist reacquainting herself to the Midwest. Born in Indianapolis, she spent several years in the Southwest before returning to her home to Indiana. Her work in heavily influenced on her experience in growing up a young girl in suburbia. She questions the transition between girlhood and womanhood. Often Aasen’s work is manifested in photographs, but has also included performances, installations, videos, and objects. Her inspiration comes from reality television, fashion dolls, blogs, and pop culture.
Samantha Lyn Aasen received her BFA in Photography from the Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI and her MFA with an emphasis in Intermedia from Arizona State University. Her work has been exhibited across the United States in Maryland, Indiana, Arizona, Illinois, and recently internationally in London.

I make rustic bentwood willow furniture from native Indiana willow saplings which I gather myself. I have been doing this since1983. I have rustic furniture shop at 702 Main Street in Lapel, Indiana which I have operated since 1994. I do art shows in the Indianapolis area, notably, Orchard in Bloom, Talbot Street Art Fair, and the Indiana Artisan Marketplace. My work is on display at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.
I also make home accessories such as white birchbark picture frames and cabinets, leather covered vases, tables arbors, trellises, and birdhouses.

Alexa is a ceramic artist currently living in Indianapolis, IN with her 3 cats. She spends her time being covered in paint and glitter as the art coordinator for the Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis, while finishing her BFA in ceramics at Herron School of Art and Design.

Agha works in a cross disciplinary fashion with mixed media; creating artwork that explores global politics, cultural multiplicity, mass media, and social and gender roles in our current cultural and global milieu. As a result her artwork is conceptually challenging, producing complicated weaves of thought, artistic action and social experience.
Biography: Anila Quayyum Agha was born in Lahore, Pakistan. She has an MFA in Fiber Arts from the University of North Texas. Agha’s work has been exhibited in over twelve solo shows and 40 group shows. In 2005, Agha was an Artist in Resident at the Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston. In 2008 she relocated to Indianapolis to teach Drawing at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. In 2009 Agha was the recipient of the Efroymson Arts Fellowship. She has also received an IAHI grant (2010) and a New Frontiers Research Grant (2012) from Indiana University. This year (2013) Agha received the Creative Renewal Fellowship awarded by the Indianapolis Arts Council.

As an iPhone photographer, I am compelled to tell a narrative, a representation of my recent journey in life. My story documents a path that has taken me from hopelessness and despair, fueled by addiction, to a being whose life has blossomed into one of joy, hope and restored faith in God.
God has breathed new life in me, a divine spark. He has inspired my eyes and my spirit. Through this transformative nudge from God, I have the desire and responsibility to explore the beauty of His divine tapestry, and capture it through my lens.
My photography was once a solitary practice, fearful of judgment and inferiority. Through my awakening, I now believe that my talents and experiences are intended to be shared, and maybe even offer hope to someone else who may be struggling.
Now that my eyes and spirit have been awakened, my faith restored, and my addiction and fear overcome, I share with you my journey through my lens.
To discuss my IPhone photography techniques or my recovery, you may contact me at michael.ahlrichs@gmail.com.

Kenna Al-Sayed is the multi award winning equine artist behind Sorrel Studios. The name of her studios reflects her love of horses, as she is the proud owner of a solid sorrel paint horse named Jambalaya. Kenna works primarily in Graphite, Color Pencil, Watercolor, Scratchboard, and has been known to dabble in Acrylic and sculpture. She strives to accurately portray horses in her artwork, be it capturing a horse dozing off during the summer or drawing all the technical details of a show horse pulling a cart.

Brent Aldrich has worked in the arts, education, and community development in Indianapolis for the last decade, with an emphasis on projects that are place-based and relational. A practicing artist, Aldrich holds an MFA from the Herron School of Art and Design, and his work has recently appeared in Art Shanty Projects in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, and Installation Nation at the Indianapolis Art Center.
Aldrich’s art practice includes projects that are place-based and relational, such as recreating the full menu from a defunct neighborhood diner, hosting a sci-fi book club and podcast set 900 years in the future, or hosting a bicycle-based talk show.

I grew up in a typical Midwestern family in Michigan. Always interested in art, but discouraged from following it as a career, I obtained a degree in accounting from Michigan State University. After spending many years in bondage as an accountant, I finally broke free and returned to school to pursue a degree in fine arts. As a graduate of Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, with a BFA in Ceramics, I continue to pursue my love of everything creative.

Inspired by my childlike interests as well as experiences which happen in my life, I paint my imagination on the world around me.
When working with clients, I prefer to create their world in high quality — I don’t suggest anyone go with my brand when working on their own project, we will instead develop their brand and identity to better differentiate themselves in the vast marketplace of today.

Lynn Andalman lives and works in the Indianapolis area, where she has raised 2 boys, designed countless interiors and sold well over a hundred original paintings. Her design work can be seen in residential and commercial settings throughout the extended Indianapolis region and her paintings are featured in ArtSplash Gallery in Carmel, in numerous private collections, and reprints of works hang in the Westin Hotel rooms in Downtown Indy. Her paintings and design work have also been featured in several area publications. Lynn has run a successful private Interior Design company, AndalmanDesign Inc, which applies dynamic and versatile solutions to clients seeking guidance and project management inside their homes or businesses. Feel free to contact her for more information, a consultation, for further documentation of completed projects, or to commission a painting on canvas. Her interior design work reflects each client’s unique lifestyle while blending functionality with high style and imagination. Her paintings on canvas range in genre from abstract to landscape, but always employ color, surface, gestural marks and pattern, in expressionistic and joyful compositions.

Growing up in a family of artists, I began painting at an early age. I am passionate about children’s literature and believe illustrations are a wonderful way to expose a child to fine art. In addition to maintaining an independent art studio in Butler Tarkington, I work as a commercial interior designer and have extensive experience with public space design.

My work is about connection to and conflict between these inner and outer experience. In my work exploring interiors, I layer, destroy, repeat and recombine imagery in an intuitive process. Rather than attempting to paint the world faithfully as I see it, these works are focused on the inner, imagined places of memory or imagination that give depth and meaning to our experience of the world.

Creating art is directly related to the way I process life events and my spiritual journey. I work in various 2D mediums as well as making artist books. I love printmaking, painting, drawing and mixed media creating. If I am trying to answer a philosophical or emotional question for myself, I know that if I go to my studio and get busy, I will find the answer I am looking for.

“Your diamonds are not in far off distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own back yard if you but dig for them.” `Russell H. Conwell~
Laura, a lifelong Hoosier finds her greates inspiration along Indiana back roads and fields. She enjoys exploring these paths working at her easel “en plein air” or creating field studies along with photos for use in her home studio. Her work reflects her passion for the charm of the commonplace scenes she discovers along the way. Through her artistic vision she invites viewers to notice the “diamonds here in our own back yard.”

Mason Archie is an award winning artist who strives to master his craft. He is a traditional painter who has the ability to attack all subject matter with the same panache. Archie’s paintings are collected throughout the country.

Don Artamas is a Contemporary Abstract Artist, with an international upbringing, he is currently based in Marion, Indiana, USA and his works has been exhibited in various museums and galleries in Asia and USA. A student of the arts at an early age, Don Artamas has been painting professionally since 90’s. He does not limit himself by a particular style . . . He is a versatile artist who is inventive, searching and daring. His works are interesting and enlightening characterized distinctively by spontaneity, impulse, depth, improvisation and chance. His abstract works are emotionally charged infused with mystery and tension, expressing a wide range of human desire and yearnings. The power and fascinating quality of Don Artamas’ works stem from the feeling that they strike deep into subconscious reserves of energy and imagination.

Nobody Can Tell Me What To Do, Not Even Me!
There are neither good nor bad subjects.
From the point of view of pure Art,
you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant,
style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Gustave Flaubert
My name is Gersh and I’m a self-taught well-published Professional Photographer, Artist, Sci-fi & How-To Professional Photography & How-To Art Writer & Designer.
I started drawing and painting when I was 3 and the first time I had my photography work published was when I was a very young child.
I have never gone to school to study art, writing, design and/or photography, nor have I had anyone teaching me any of the said disciplines.
My art work comprises of a very large collection of black and white and color images which have been created by me in various styles, some of which are surrealism, realism, impressionism and other well-known artistic expressions, in addition to those which have been pioneered by me.
What sets me apart from all other artists, is not only a distinct style of my work, but also the fact that I work in almost each and every medium and genre and pioneer my own genres.
A large portion of my work are storyboards and illustration for books written by me, nevertheless there are also images which are not a part of any project.
They say that every image is worth a thousand words and that every image is a story. My art speaks for itself and I’m not here to describe it, because if my images couldn’t speak for themselves and could not tell stories, they wouldn’t be worth of even looking at them, needless speaking of being published and admired by people.
My art is not only a product of my knowledge, imagination, but is also a result of experiences achieved through the exploration of various mediums. From pen and Indian ink, charcoal, markers, oil, graphite, acrylics to less known materials, some of which have been created by me. Despite what has been said, I do not stick with any particular style, but on contrary remain a free explorer of various mediums and styles, which leaves me free not to be told what to do, not even by me, but to remain free in my exploration of the ways and choices to achieve an absolute paramount in my artistic-expression!

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